Salekul Islam has been Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department of North South University since 2024. Earlier he served as a Professor of the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department of United International University (UIU) since 2018, and was also the Head of the CSE Department of UIU. He was also in the position of the Director of Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) and the Director of Centre for AI and Robotics (CAIR) at UIU. He was a Visiting Faculty Member of Anglia Ruskin University, UK in 2015.
Dr. Islam completed his PhD in Computer Science from Concordia University, Canada in 2008. He also worked as a Fonds de Recherche du Québec Nature et Technologies (FRQNT) Postdoctoral Fellow at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Canada from 2008 to 2011. He is actively involved with Bangladesh Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education (BAETE) in different capacities including as a Member of the Board, member of the Task force for Preparing the OBE Manual and the Co-Chair of the Quality Assurance Cell.
His research areas mainly focus in cybersecurity, Blockchain, edge cloud computing, image processing, NLP, Robotics and engineering education. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 refereed papers in international journals and conferences. He served as the Organizing Chair of several international conferences. He is a Fellow of Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) and is also a Senior Member of IEEE.